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2021-12-31 at 1:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Gizmodo
Fox News' Worst Lies About Covid-19 From 2021
Matt Novak
Fox News spent the better part of 2021 telling its viewers blatant lies about the covid-19 pandemic. The network has claimed covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, that masks don’t help slow the spread of the virus, and that immigrants are worsening the pandemic in the U.S. Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on Fox News, even claimed covid-19 is somehow making men more feminine.
A recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Fox News viewers are more likely to believe covid-19 falsehoods than people who consumer other mainstream news sources. And yet, Fox News itself has a covid-19 vaccine mandate, despite talking heads on the channel railing against them.
Today we’re taking a look at the worst lies Fox News told its audience about the covid-19 pandemic during 2021. Here’s hoping the conservative networks tones things down in 2022 and starts telling people the truth, as cases skyrocket in the U.S. and hospitalizations trend upward. But we’re not going to hold our breath.
According to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the U.S. government is hiding deaths from the covid-19 vaccine. It’s a claim Carlson made multiple times in 2021, like on May 5, when he pulled numbers from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS.
“Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the covid vaccine in the United States—3,362,” Carlson said. “That’s an average of roughly 30 people every day.”
But Carlson didn’t stop there.
“The actual number is almost certainly higher than that, perhaps vastly higher than that,” Carlson said. “It’s clear that what is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal.”
As Politifact points out, Carlson is being misleading. Dying after you get vaccinated, which is the only thing that was being crowdsourced from the general public in this data, isn’t the same thing as dying from a vaccination. And anyone can send in a report to VAERS, which doesn’t fact check the claims. That didn’t stop Carlson from making wild accusations though. And it certainly wouldn’t be the last time.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has repeatedly suggested that ivermectin is a great drug for treating people who get covid-19.
“You never hear Fauci talk about that, or D3 or ivermectin, because they haven’t even given emergency use authorization for ivermectin—haven’t even put out anything about that. They’re way behind all these other countries,” Ingraham said on the March 5 edition of her show, The Ingraham Angle.
Often derided as merely “horse dewormer,” ivermectin is actually an incredibly useful drug for treating parasitic infestation in humans, as Gizmodo reported back in August. But research thus far hasn’t found it to be useful for treating covid-19.
That hasn’t stopped countless people from giving it a try when they get covid-19, sometimes with tragic results, including at least two deaths in New Mexico from ivermectin poisoning in September.
On the December 8, 2021 edition of Tucker Carlson’s online show, the Fox News host claimed that covid-19 was making men more feminine.
“So somebody who knows him told me, and I’d be interested in getting your take on this, that getting covid emasculated him, it changed him, it feminized him, it weakened him as a man,” Carlson asked.
Nigel Farage, a far-right figure from the UK, said that covid-19 made people very ill and that co-morbidities included being overweight, but even he couldn’t bring himself to say that men were somehow being “feminized” by the disease.
“But the virus itself, this is true, does tend to take away the life force in some people I notice. I mean it does feminize people. No one ever says that but it’s true,” Carlson insisted.
It’s not true.
Fox News guest Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who has made debunked claims on other shows like the Joe Rogan Experience, said on Laura Ingraham’s show on July 7 that people under the age of 30 shouldn’t be vaccinated.
“Overall, the equation is very unfavorable for vaccination of anyone below age 30,” McCullough said.
“Unless we really have a compelling case, no one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccine,” McCullough continued.
The vaccine has been shown to be both safe and effective in those under 30 and has been authorized for emergency use in kids as young as 5. Incredibly, that wasn’t even McCullough’s most ridiculous claim in the media this year. McCullough went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said that the pandemic was planned and suggested it was essentially a false flag orchestrated by the government.
Former advisor to President Donald Trump, radiologist Scott Atlas, appeared on Laura Ingraham’s show on September 20 to spread misinformation and fear about the vaccine.
“All they did was they demonstrated that if you inject an experimental drug into a child, you will be able to measure antibodies on a blood test,” Atlas said. “That’s not what vaccines are for. Vaccines are for protecting against serious illness.”
The chyron even said “Profits’ Over Kids Safety,” just in case you didn’t get the hint or were watching TV with the sound off.
President Trump himself has spoken out in favor of the vaccines and booster shots, but was recently booed at an event with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for saying the vaccines were good. Maybe Dr. Atlas didn’t get the memo.
Tucker Carlson is known for his white supremacist ideas, previously calling Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” and saying that immigrants to the U.S. made the country “dirtier.” So it’s no surprise that Carlson tried to blame the covid-19 pandemic on immigrants during some of his segments in 2021.
“Illegal aliens are now exempt from the public health measures that have been imposed by force on the rest of us by the U.S. government. Illegal aliens come and go as they please. No one seems to care if they spread deadly viruses to the rest of the American population. It’s hard to believe that’s actually happening, but it is happening,” Carlson said on March 17.
But it’s simply not true. Doctors have looked at this issue again and again, explaining that the surges in case numbers during 2021 were not found to be the result of people moving along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it should be no surprise that Carlson would try to float this idea that migrants are inherently dirty. It’s been a common anti-immigrant trope throughout history.
Fox News host Martha MacCallum made the claim on March 9 that masks probably weren’t helping in the ways being promoted by the U.S. government, albeit belatedly.
“Yeah, I always think we’re going to look back at these studies and wonder about the true effectiveness of masks and whether or not they really did make a difference. I think that story continues to be studied and we’re learning more about it to be sure,” MacCallum said.
But studies have shown repeatedly that masks, while imperfect, really do help slow the spread of covid-19, as Gizmodo reported back in September.
Fox News “expert” Pat Brosnan, a former detective for the NYPD, made quite a claim in May, suggesting that there’s a link between covid-19 vaccinations and mass shootings in the U.S., after a mass shooting in San Jose earlier this year.
“This is a time that I wish I was wrong with my prediction, which I mention to anybody who would listen, that once covid starts to lift, these cowardly shooters will come out exactly in tandem with the number of vaccinations. You can be sure they probably got vaccinated, they were just scared to come out,” Brosnan said.
“And they’re coming back. And you see the numbers don’t lie, shootings are up dramatically, skyrocketing actually on active shootings in the United States,” Brosnan continued.
Brosnan’s claim that mass shooters, who often end their own life or are killed by police, would care about their vaccination status before conducting a mass shooting is just absurd on its face. But we’re not exactly working with geniuses here at Fox News.
Or here at NIS.
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2021-12-31 at 1:35 PM UTCThere's already a new one lol
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2021-12-31 at 1:39 PM UTCThe one after that will be called Stupidcron.
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2021-12-31 at 1:43 PM UTCDelmicrion anal prolapse explosion-20
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2021-12-31 at 2:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Fox News spent the better part of 2021 telling its viewers blatant lies about the covid-19 pandemic. The network has claimed covid-19 vaccines are dangerous, that masks don’t help slow the spread of the virus, and that immigrants are worsening the pandemic in the U.S.
So what you're saying is that the vaccines are 100% safe, with a perfect safety record, masks work to slow the spread of the virus but nothing more, and immigrants moving around doesn't affect the disease dispersion in any way (even at times while the rest of us are locked down).
Some of the stuff you copy and pasta is so stupid I really have to wonder.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-31 at 5:04 PM UTC
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2021-12-31 at 5:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ They're going to try to reduce the world population down to just 500 million. Them, and just enough people to serve them and keep them alive. They want all the rest dead.
come on man.
6.5 billion is in excess of 1000 times more than 6 million and we both know its impossible to kill that many people in a generation. -
2021-12-31 at 5:21 PM UTC
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2021-12-31 at 5:42 PM UTCBelgium's polar station?
I imagine those are some pretty close quarters.
If someone farts there, the whole group smells it. -
2021-12-31 at 5:43 PM UTCCovid is fake yeah covid is fake
go out without a mask or put one on
it don't make a difference mon covid is fake
covid fake yeah covid is fake
dey vaccine it don't do squat but if you don't take it you have no job
covid is fake yeah covid is fake
deport all immigrants yeah covid is fake -
2021-12-31 at 5:47 PM UTCAin't no fixin' stupid.
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2021-12-31 at 5:47 PM UTCain't no fixing covid
cuz it ain't real -
2021-12-31 at 5:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny come on man.
6.5 billion is in excess of 1000 times more than 6 million and we both know its impossible to kill that many people in a generation.
Won't be hard at all. Once they ban cash and get everyone's entire lives on the mark of the beast, they can snuff out billions at the flip of a switch. -
2021-12-31 at 5:55 PM UTCCan they start with you...please?
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2021-12-31 at 5:58 PM UTC
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2021-12-31 at 6:45 PM UTChttps://www.ipd.uw.edu/2021/11/covid-19-vaccine-with-ipd-nanoparticles-meets-phase-1-2-trial-goals/
Engineered particle based vaccines are coming, this one will be marketed as the Glaxo-Smith-Kline-Beecham/GSK vaccine and will probably be the first "second gen" vaccine. I don't trust the clinical trials, but it could potentially have less extreme side effects. -
2021-12-31 at 7:57 PM UTCYou call a sore arm "extreme side effects"?
Pussy.
You did get all three of your shots, didn't you, Donny? -
2021-12-31 at 8:16 PM UTCSore arms and a few thousand dead kids.
It's all worth it to keep as the boomers alive as long as possible. -
2021-12-31 at 8:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
Before election
After the facts
I have to side with the Prez on this. The first one he spoke about Trump was the Covid19 original.
the one you have him talking about is the Omicron which is being said it's the most mildest. it is however very spreadable compared to the others. it spreads easier and faster but doesn't seem to be as deadly or cause as much complications as the first two.
I honestly hope there isn't a new strain developing right now in mutation (or another form). It's being said that a very deadly Avian Flu is spreading out of the middle east right now.
it's just one fucking thing after another. tired of this shit.
